Quotes About Patience

If you don't have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain't getting them.

his gut kept telling him that there was some kind of connection between the capacity to love and the capacity to love running. The engineering was certainly the same: both depended on loosening your grip on your own desires, putting aside what you wanted and appreciating what you got, being patient and forgiving and undemanding.

The engineering was certainly the same: both depended on loosening your grip on your own desires, putting aside what you wanted and appreciating what you got, being patient and forgiving and undemanding.

Sí, pero somos lentos". Estaban centrándose en la velocidad y no alcanzaban a entender que la resistencia podía ser una ventaja.»

eased back to a walk, obeying the ultrarunner's creed: "If you can't see the top, walk." When you're running fifty miles, there's no dividend in bashing up the hills and then being winded on the way down; you only lose a few seconds if you walk, and then you can make them back up by flying downhill.

Ask nothing from your running, in other words, and you'll get more than you ever imagined.

Mira, tengo malas noticias —dijo—. No vas a ganar. Sin importar lo que hagas, vas a estar ahí fuera todo el día. Así que lo mejor será que te relajes, te tomes tu tiempo y lo disfrutes. Quédate con esto en la cabeza: si sientes que requiere demasiado esfuerzo, es que estás esforzándote más de la cuenta.

But you can't muscle through a five-hour run that way; you have to relax into it, like easing your body into a hot bath, until it no longer resists the shock and begins to enjoy it.

Vigil couldn't quite put his finger on it, but his gut kept telling him that there was some kind of connection between the capacity to love and the capacity to love running. The engineering was certainly the same: both depended on loosening your grip on your own desires, putting aside what you wanted and appreciating what you got, being patient and forgiving and undemanding.

Love needs room to grow. Like a rose. Or a tumor.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

He was willing to wait until the last dollar was broken: in the meantime he was content. You never know the soul of a city, he said, until you are down on your luck. Now, he felt, he had been here long enough to understand her.

If you work your hardest and you do your best, then the rest is not in your control, but in God's Hands.

The night is darkest before the dawn. And I promise you, the dawn is coming.

A bud is a flower-to-be. A flower in waiting. Waiting for just the right warmth and care to open up. It's a little fist of love waiting to unfold and be seen by the world. And that's you.

Hoping is such hard work. It tires you out and you never seem to get any kind of reward. Hoping feels like you're a balloon that has a pinhole that slowly leaks air.

his sermons go on so long that some of the time you feel like begging, "Take me now, Jesus," 'bout halfway through 'em.

Timing is very important: words can only have a positive effect on others if and when they are ready to listen.

Your show is running late because Keith doesn't want to go on stage until he gets a shepherd's pie.

If there's any greater exhibit of the malleability of human nature than the sight of someone standing, absently waiting for the light to change at a deserted intersection, I don't know what it is.

I was never a planner, but to wait is to plan, or it is itself some sort of plan. Actions move us swiftly into the irrevocable, but to wait keeps the irrevocable at a distance.

I came to you tardy and late as I usually do to the better things in my life

Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy. Great words are clear and limpid; little words are shrill and quarrelsome.

God's got something for me. I have faith it'll be OK.